# Law 41: Foul Limits and Game Disqualifications (FIBA Official Basketball Rules)

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Five fouls and the excluded player, the player head coach, the GD marker and leaving within 30 seconds.

## 41.411 Five Fouls

Leaving the game, excluded players and the player head coach.

### Test 1: Five fouls and excluded players

- A player with 5 fouls is informed by an official and must leave the game immediately. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.1)
- The player is informed of it by a referee. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.1)
- A player head coach with 5 player fouls becomes an excluded player but may continue as head coach. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.2)
- A foul by a player who already has 5 fouls is an excluded player's foul, entered against the head coach ('B'). (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.3)
- A player who has committed 5 fouls must leave the game. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.1)
- It is entered against the head coach with a 'B'. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.3)
- A player who has committed 5 fouls is an excluded player. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.2-41.3)
- Five fouls: told by an official, out immediately. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.1)
- An excluded player head coach may keep coaching. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.2)
- He becomes an excluded player but keeps the bench. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.2)

## 41.412 Game Disqualification

The GD marker and leaving the game.

### Test 1: The GD marker and leaving

- The timer informs the player of the game disqualification by raising the GD marker. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.4)
- The GD marker is the game disqualification marker. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.4)
- The same marker is used for a head coach as for a player. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.5)
- Any disqualified person must leave the game immediately, taking no more than 30 seconds. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.6)
- Category 2 technicals do not count towards game disqualification. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.4)
- A player with 5 fouls leaves the game and is an excluded player from then on. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.1-41.2)
- Any disqualified player, substitute, coach, assistant, excluded player or delegation member must leave within 30 seconds. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.6)
- GD marker, out within 30 seconds, then the dressing room or out of the building. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.4, 41.6)
- Three 'B' technicals disqualify a head coach; the timer signals it with the GD marker. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.5)
- The timer informs him by raising the GD marker. (Source: FIBA OBR 2026, Art. 41.4)

Sources: FIBA Official Basketball Rules 2026 (v1.1), Article 41 (paraphrased in original wording; original questions authored from the Rules, not reproduced)

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